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Discoverers

DISCOVERERS (Entering Grades 1 – 3)

Bring hat and snack to all classes. Cold water is provided.

1 day class Members: $25 Non-members: $35

2 day class Members: $46 Non-members: $56

3 day class Members: $66 Non-members: $76

KEY TO LOCATIONS: GB=Green Briar, GF=Game Farm, H=Hemispheres at Town Neck, TN=Town Neck Beach on beach side of the Boardwalk

Date

Time

Title

Location

July 1, 2

9:00-11:30am

Nature’s Ninjas

GB

July 1, 2, 3

1:00-3:30pm

Creeks, Cracks, Crevices

GB,H, TN

July 1

6:00-8:30pm

Discoverer’s Night Out

GB

July 3

9:00-11:30am

Enchanted Gardens

GB

July 6, 7

9:00-11:30am

Pirate’s Life for Me

GB

July 6, 7

1:00-3:30pm

Beach Combing

TN, H

July 8, 9, 10

9:00-11:30am

ZOOM into Science (Build It)

GB

July 8, 9

1:00-3:30pm

Awesome Animals

GB

July 10

1:00-3:30pm

Snakes Alive

GB

July 13, 14, 15

9:00-11:30am

Cape Cod Safari

TP,H,TN

July 13, 14

1:00-3:30pm

Native Crafts & Games

GB

July 15

1:00-3:30pm

Herps Alive

GF

July 16, 17

9:00-11:30am

Dig It Archaeology

GB

July 16

1:00-3:30pm

Turtle Hurdles

GB

July 17

1:00-3:30pm

Mad Science

GB

July 20, 21

9:00-11:30am

Nature Journaling

GB

July 20, 21

1:00-3:30pm

Bug’s Life – Water & Forest

GB

July 22, 23, 24

9:00-11:30am

Recycled Crafts

GB

July 22, 23, 24

1:00-3:30pm

Hide and Seek

GB, GF

July 27

9:00-11:30am

Enchanted Gardens

GB

July 27, 28

1:00-3:30pm

Fetch

GB, GF

July 27

6:00-8:30pm

Discoverer’s Night Out

GB

July 28, 29, 30

9:00-11:30am

Wet & Wild Safari

H, TN, GF

July 29, 30

1:00-3:30pm

Smiling Pool Safari

GB

July 31

9:00-11:30am

Soap Science

GB

Aug. 3, 4, 5

9:00-11:30am

Critter Creations

GB

Aug. 3, 4

1:00-3:30pm

Pirate’s Life for Me

GB

Aug. 6, 7

9:00-11:30am

Slippery Slimy Science

GB

Aug. 5, 6, 7

1:00-3:30pm

ZOOM into Science (Move It)

GB

Aug. 10

9:00-11:30am

Fairy Houses

GB

Aug. 13, 14

9:00-11:30am

Seaside Safari

H, TN

Aug. 13, 14

1:00-3:30pm

Dinosaur Romp

GB

Aug. 17, 18

9:00-11:30am

ZOOM into Science (See It)

GB

Aug. 17, 18, 19

1:00-3:30pm

Flying High

GB, GF

Aug. 18

6:00-8:30pm

Discoverer’s Night Out

GB

Aug. 19

9:00-11:30am

Snakes Alive

GB

Aug. 20, 21

9:00-11:30am

Nature’s Ninjas

GB

Aug. 20, 21

1:00-3:30pm

Smiling Pool Safari

GB

Aug. 24, 25

9:00-11:30am

 Pirate’s Life for Me

GB

Aug. 26, 27

9:00-11:30am

Creeks, Cracks & Crevices

H, TN

Aug. 26, 27

1:00-3:30pm

Reptile Safari

GB

 

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS – DISCOVERERS (Entering Grades 1 - 3)

Awesome Animals: Explore woods, field, pond and swamp for really awesome animals.

Beach Combing: Look what the tide washed in. Search for the most unusual find. Create a scavenger trophy to take home. Day 1 at Town Neck Beach on beach side of the Boardwalk. Day 2 at beach by Hemispheres.

Bug’s Life: Six legs and three body parts, wings or no wings, one pair of antennae, exoskeleton. These are what makes a bug a bug, but they are so much more.

Cape Cod Safari: Visit three unique habitats in search of the strange and wonderful creatures that inhabit them. Day 1 at Talbot’s Point. Day 2 at beach by Hemispheres. Day 3 at Town Neck Beach on beach side of the Boardwalk.

Creeks, Cracks & Crevices: Have some wet and wild fun exploring for critters hiding in creeks, cracks and crevices. Float along the Smiling Pool at Green Briar in the canoe-catamaran on 7/1. Other dates meet at the beach.

Critter Creations: Work with paper, egg cartons, clay and more to design and create unique animals from your imagination.

Dig It Archaeology: Be an archeologist as you excavate small "digs" looking for evidence of human activity. Work with your team to hunt for coins and bones and reconstruct materials back at the lab.

Dinosaur Romp: Have some fossil fun and volcanic laughs learning about dinosaurs and their time.

Discoverer’s Night Out: Explore the Smiling Pool by canoe-catamaran as the evening begins. Roast marshmallows over an open fire.

Enchanted Gardens: Create lovely little fairy garden homes complete with live plants and moss in take-home planter containers. All plants and building materials are provided. Add $8 to class fee for materials.

Fairy Houses: Use bits of bark, pretty shells, pine cones and leaves to create a special house fit for a tiny woodland fairy along Fairy Hill.

Fetch: Explore science with Ruff Ruffman as you complete awesome experiments from the hit PBS television show.

Flying High: Things with wings are what we’ll search for during this class. Make a kite and try to get it to soar to the tree tops.

Herps Alive: Reptiles and amphibians are wonderfully unique. How many different Herps can you find along the trails and pond edge at the East Sandwich Game Farm?

Hide and Seek: Work with topographical maps and compasses to explore off the path. Complete a special challenge on the last day to find a box of goodies.

Mad Science: Create the weird and strange in our "laboratory." Some strange things can go home; others are too unstable to travel.

Native Crafts and Games: Create musical instruments, work with beads and discover some cool games to play.

Nature Journaling: Create a special notebook filled with stories, drawings and special keepsakes from nature. On 7/1 explore out on the Smiling Pool in a canoe- catamaran in search of inspiration.

Nature’s Ninjas: Look for critters that are great at camouflage while they wait for their prey to come along.

Pirate’s Life for Me: Ahoy ye land lubbers! Practice your "pirate skills" with maps and search for booty to divide up and keep. Set sail on the Smiling Pool on the Black Mussel (canoe-catamaran) with the Jolly Roger flapping in the breeze.

Recycled Crafts: Design and craft some really cool and useful stuff from things we usually throw away.

Reptile Safari: Meet Erica the African Fat Tailed Gecko and our resident turtles and snakes. Trek out on the Smiling Pool in the canoe-catamaran on 8/27.

Seaside Safari: Look for magnetic grains in beach sand, rare rose quartz, laughing gulls, tiny oyster drill shells and fragile limpets. Day 1 at beach by Hemispheres. Day 2 at Town Neck Beach on beach side of the Boardwalk.

Slippery Slimy Science: Slime, oobleck and exploding soda pop are just a few of the science wonders that await you in this class.

Smiling Pool Safari: Look for Jerry Muskrat, Little Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog and Redwing the Blackbird. Go out on the canoe-catamaran on 7/30 in search of Mrs. Snapper and Painted Turtle.

Snakes Alive: Meet Kaa and Albi, our resident snakes. Then hike out in search of their wild cousins. We have no poisonous snakes on Cape Cod.

Soap Science: Have lots and lots of " bubblicious" fun making bubbles and even painting with bubbles.

Turtle Hurdles: Meet the resident turtles in the Ed Center. Then explore the Smiling Pool in the canoe-catamaran looking for wild turtles to catch.

Wet & Wild Safari: Nets up and ready to capture fish, crabs, sea slugs, lobsters and other critters that live in salty places. Day 1 at beach by Hemispheres. Day 2 at Town Neck Beach on beach side of the Boardwalk. Day 3 at the Game Farm.

ZOOM-Build It: Work in teams to construct towers and bridges, unique kites and weird snacks.

ZOOM-Move It: Work in teams to construct objects that can move. Wind powered cars and planes are just some of the objects to make.

ZOOM-See It: Optical illusions, after images, color changes are just some of the science fun in this ZOOM class.

 

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